Claude Monet

Skymorials Editorial Monet with wife, Camille Doncieux who was featured in several of his famous works like Camille or The Woman in the Green Dress (La Femme à la Robe Verte),

Skymorials Editorial “What does this painting represent? Impression, I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it.” - Monet

Skymorials Editorial The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, which was exhibited in 1874 in Paris

Skymorials Editorial Beginning in the 1880s and 1890s, through the end of his life in 1926, Monet worked on "series" paintings, in which a subject was depicted in varying light and weather conditions.

Skymorials Editorial Monet died of lung cancer on December 5, 1926 at the age of 86. He had insisted that the occasion be simple; thus about fifty people attended the ceremony.

Skymorials Editorial Claude Monet was born in Paris but he spent his early life in Le Havre, where he drew caricatures and he was noticed by E. Boudin, who convinced him to devote himself to landscape painting.

Skymorials Editorial May 2019. A famous Monet painting just sold to a mysterious buyer for a record $110.7 million at Sotheby’s in New York — more than 44 times what the seller paid for it. It's the most expensive Impressionist artwork ever sold at auction, according to Sotheby's. The 1890 painting is part of Monet's "Haystacks" series, which he painted at his home in Giverny, France

Skymorials Editorial Monet's Water Lilies (Series) is considered as one of his most famous masterpieces.